Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
Prof and researcher. Race, media, activism, feminism, tech and politics but not always in that order. Co-Director @miccenter.bsky.social
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Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
· Sep 11
A Second Sight
Since the nation’s founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience—a “second sight”—that reveals the truth about the nation t...
www.harpercollins.com
I know there is a lot going on but this went online last night and I am very proud it’s real. If you might be excited to find out how at every turn this nation could have prevented our current political moment by listening to Black people you can even preorder it before we get to designing the cover
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A number of local Chicago reporters/journalists have truly distinguished themselves over the past few weeks and I am so very grateful. It also shows that reporting is a public service when done well. Thank you all.
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A number of local Chicago reporters/journalists have truly distinguished themselves over the past few weeks and I am so very grateful. It also shows that reporting is a public service when done well. Thank you all.
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The median age of all U.S. homebuyers is now 59 years old.
Just 15 years ago, it was 39 years old.
Just 15 years ago, it was 39 years old.
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The median age of all U.S. homebuyers is now 59 years old.
Just 15 years ago, it was 39 years old.
Just 15 years ago, it was 39 years old.
“I am a full-time college student from a low-income family, and I rely on these benefits to buy groceries — as do many of my close friends.“
Mia Vesely | I use SNAP benefits, and many other college students do too
Senior columnist Mia Vesely discusses the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and dispels the notion that such programs are misused or unessential.
www.thedp.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
“I am a full-time college student from a low-income family, and I rely on these benefits to buy groceries — as do many of my close friends.“
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For every surveillance state to function, there must be a critical mass of people who willingly act as snitches to further the regime's ideology.
I lived through this firsthand, money isn't the motivating factor for these people, it's the satisfaction of seeing people they hate suffer
I lived through this firsthand, money isn't the motivating factor for these people, it's the satisfaction of seeing people they hate suffer
RAISE YOUR CHILDREN SO THEY DO NOT DO THINGS LIKE THIS dailyfreepress.com/11/13/10/216...
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
For every surveillance state to function, there must be a critical mass of people who willingly act as snitches to further the regime's ideology.
I lived through this firsthand, money isn't the motivating factor for these people, it's the satisfaction of seeing people they hate suffer
I lived through this firsthand, money isn't the motivating factor for these people, it's the satisfaction of seeing people they hate suffer
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Some Dems and pundits overread the significance of Trump's win. They looked at dissatisfaction with the border and discerned a seismic cultural reaction to immigration levels inside the country. The former was real. The latter is a mirage.
(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Some Dems and pundits overread the significance of Trump's win. They looked at dissatisfaction with the border and discerned a seismic cultural reaction to immigration levels inside the country. The former was real. The latter is a mirage.
(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
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In Boston, three generations of one family have worked in child care, a career that once provided a stable way of life.
In the past, jobs that didn’t necessarily require a college degree could keep families housed and fed for generations. That’s not always the case anymore.
In the past, jobs that didn’t necessarily require a college degree could keep families housed and fed for generations. That’s not always the case anymore.
One job, three generations, 30 years of inflation: A story from Massachusetts’ shrinking middle class - The Boston Globe
For these families, working the same job, in the same city, just doesn’t add up to a solid middle-class life like it used to.
trib.al
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
In Boston, three generations of one family have worked in child care, a career that once provided a stable way of life.
In the past, jobs that didn’t necessarily require a college degree could keep families housed and fed for generations. That’s not always the case anymore.
In the past, jobs that didn’t necessarily require a college degree could keep families housed and fed for generations. That’s not always the case anymore.
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I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
I'm in a debate with a copyeditor about the correct word for a group of vampires. Yes, we are publishing a serious scholarly text here.
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I'm in a debate with a copyeditor about the correct word for a group of vampires. Yes, we are publishing a serious scholarly text here.
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thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
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Today, Oklahoma is set to execute Tremane Wood even though a state panel recommended his life is spared
Tremane Wood is currently on death row, despite his older brother admitting to killing victim Ronnie Wipf in 2002.
Next week, he will have the chance to make his case for mercy.
Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death anyway.
Next week, he will have the chance to make his case for mercy.
Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death anyway.
His Brother Admitted To A Murder. He Is Set To Be Executed For It.
Next week, Tremane Wood will have the chance to make his case for mercy. Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death.
www.huffpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Today, Oklahoma is set to execute Tremane Wood even though a state panel recommended his life is spared
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Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he started in creeping on 14-year-old Sally Hemings. And Sally, who was enslaved, shared a father with Martha Wayles Jefferson—Tom's wife.
He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness
He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he started in creeping on 14-year-old Sally Hemings. And Sally, who was enslaved, shared a father with Martha Wayles Jefferson—Tom's wife.
He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness
He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness
“I yipped about inclusion”
Yeah, we know, we all knew all along that a lot of these leaders were just yipping about inclusion and didn’t mean it. No wonder they were so mad about Claudine Gay when they used to have this guy who says women are low iq and sexual harassment isn’t a big deal in charge
Yeah, we know, we all knew all along that a lot of these leaders were just yipping about inclusion and didn’t mean it. No wonder they were so mad about Claudine Gay when they used to have this guy who says women are low iq and sexual harassment isn’t a big deal in charge
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I yipped about inclusion”
Yeah, we know, we all knew all along that a lot of these leaders were just yipping about inclusion and didn’t mean it. No wonder they were so mad about Claudine Gay when they used to have this guy who says women are low iq and sexual harassment isn’t a big deal in charge
Yeah, we know, we all knew all along that a lot of these leaders were just yipping about inclusion and didn’t mean it. No wonder they were so mad about Claudine Gay when they used to have this guy who says women are low iq and sexual harassment isn’t a big deal in charge
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This comes as part of an extended chat between Epstein and Larry Summers, in which Summers is defending Trump, and notorious pedophile ring leader Jeffrey Epstein says no, Trump is a very bad person.
Still working our way through approx. 23,000 pages of Epstein related documents released by House Oversight Cmte.
In another email.. this one from Feb. 2017.. Epstein references Trump
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In another email.. this one from Feb. 2017.. Epstein references Trump
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November 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This comes as part of an extended chat between Epstein and Larry Summers, in which Summers is defending Trump, and notorious pedophile ring leader Jeffrey Epstein says no, Trump is a very bad person.
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All you have to do is poll a random group of adult women to see how many were abused in childhood to know we've already demonstrated this. Epidemic levels.
We already know conclusively that abusing adult women doesn’t violate our norms. We are well on our way to demonstrating just as conclusively that sexually abusing girls doesn’t violate our norms, either.
Social norms are unwritten rules backed by social sanctions. If child sexual abuse isn’t met with strong, collective consequences, we don’t have a social norm against it.
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
All you have to do is poll a random group of adult women to see how many were abused in childhood to know we've already demonstrated this. Epidemic levels.
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“A certain famous male comedian (who performed in Saudi Arabia, ahem) told me a few weeks ago that my firing was a “badge of honor.”
But sometimes I think people might say, “Be proud! It’s a badge of honor”! — because they don’t want to deal with your anger.”
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
But sometimes I think people might say, “Be proud! It’s a badge of honor”! — because they don’t want to deal with your anger.”
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
Is getting fired from mainstream media a "badge of honor"?
On angel numbers, capture of the media and the purge of non-white journalists
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“A certain famous male comedian (who performed in Saudi Arabia, ahem) told me a few weeks ago that my firing was a “badge of honor.”
But sometimes I think people might say, “Be proud! It’s a badge of honor”! — because they don’t want to deal with your anger.”
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
But sometimes I think people might say, “Be proud! It’s a badge of honor”! — because they don’t want to deal with your anger.”
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
“Interesting debate in Cheltenham”
November 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
“Interesting debate in Cheltenham”
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Black thinkers & activists have been saying the same thing for more than 150 yrs: the rights, laws, & programs passed by Congress are meaningless if white Americans remain unwilling to enforce them.
After the police chief in Columbia, SC murdered a Black resident in cold blood, an anonymous Black woman wrote to the govt in May 1866: "Our friends in Congress are wasting time & breath, & all the bills they may pass, will do us no good, unless men are sent here that will see these laws enforced."
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Black thinkers & activists have been saying the same thing for more than 150 yrs: the rights, laws, & programs passed by Congress are meaningless if white Americans remain unwilling to enforce them.
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
US firefighter detained on the job speaks out after deportation: ‘I feel betrayed’
Exclusive: Border patrol arrested José Bertin Cruz-Estrada while he was battling a wildfire in Washington. He is now in Mexico, separated from his family in Oregon
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
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Oh sorry, I actually do teach human sacrifice. It’s in my curriculum week 3 right when the quarter really picks up.
As the “Universities” here I would just like to assure you all we are not teaching anyone how to carry out human sacrifice of tech founders. Just the critical thinking that comes with studying communication, sociology, and political science. Bless.
Palantir update via www.wired.com/story/alex-k...
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Oh sorry, I actually do teach human sacrifice. It’s in my curriculum week 3 right when the quarter really picks up.
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I did teach my students today how to perform a polytheist sacrifice. A male student playing the Vestal Virgin Fabia prayed to Venus Changer-of-Hearts, used my ceramic knife to behead a small golden llama pinata, read the omen inside its entrails, & then distributed candy organs to supporters. #RTTP
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I did teach my students today how to perform a polytheist sacrifice. A male student playing the Vestal Virgin Fabia prayed to Venus Changer-of-Hearts, used my ceramic knife to behead a small golden llama pinata, read the omen inside its entrails, & then distributed candy organs to supporters. #RTTP
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Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
As the “Universities” here I would just like to assure you all we are not teaching anyone how to carry out human sacrifice of tech founders. Just the critical thinking that comes with studying communication, sociology, and political science. Bless.
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
As the “Universities” here I would just like to assure you all we are not teaching anyone how to carry out human sacrifice of tech founders. Just the critical thinking that comes with studying communication, sociology, and political science. Bless.
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“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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#tdih Veterans Day
Read about African American veterans who fought overseas and, on return to U.S., were murdered in fight for democracy and human rights.
Also, resources about vets organizing against war and Lincoln Brigades. ⬇️ 🧵#TeachOutsideTextbook
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ve...
Read about African American veterans who fought overseas and, on return to U.S., were murdered in fight for democracy and human rights.
Also, resources about vets organizing against war and Lincoln Brigades. ⬇️ 🧵#TeachOutsideTextbook
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ve...
Nov. 11: Veterans Day
On Veterans Day, we share a collection of stories about African American veterans who fought in various wars abroad and, upon their return to the United States, were murdered in the fight for democrac...
www.zinnedproject.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
#tdih Veterans Day
Read about African American veterans who fought overseas and, on return to U.S., were murdered in fight for democracy and human rights.
Also, resources about vets organizing against war and Lincoln Brigades. ⬇️ 🧵#TeachOutsideTextbook
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ve...
Read about African American veterans who fought overseas and, on return to U.S., were murdered in fight for democracy and human rights.
Also, resources about vets organizing against war and Lincoln Brigades. ⬇️ 🧵#TeachOutsideTextbook
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ve...